4 Dec
2007
4 Dec
'07
9:04 a.m.
well in fact, i need advice in two keybd:
one for me to control bristol. maybe with knobs? is it dificult to program
the knobs to work with bristol?
one for my girlfriend, she plays the piano and i though (as a Christmas
present) in a usbmidi keyboard so she could practice with her notebook
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Um abraço, Jorge Salgueiro
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4 Dec
4 Dec
10:30 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:04:33PM +0100, Jorge Salgueiro wrote:
well in fact, i need advice in two keybd:
one for me to control bristol. maybe with knobs? is it dificult to program
the knobs to work with bristol?
one for my girlfriend, she plays the piano and i though (as a Christmas
present) in a usbmidi keyboard so she could practice with her notebook
Tou can find lots of old MIDI controllers that were built much better than anything you
could buy new today, and can sometimes be had for cheap. Simply plug the into your MIDI
interface, and off you go.
One night at a gig, I had brain fart and forgot to bring my second MIDI controller. I
borrowed a cheap Yamaha all-in-one keyboard at home-- the kind of toy you'd expect to
buy at Radio Shack-- and it worked great and got me through the show. Had velocity and
sustain pedal and everything. Anything with a MIDI out port will work-- you can probably
find stuff at garage sales if you're really going low-end.
If you want USB, the M-Audio keyboards are, in my experience, utter crap. However, they
seem to be the cheapest things out there. I bought a used Axiom and it died after a couple
months of use. Garbage.
-ken
5 Dec
5 Dec
3:02 p.m.
Ken Restivo wrote:
One night at a gig, I had brain fart and forgot to
bring my second
MIDI controller. I borrowed a cheap Yamaha all-in-one keyboard at
home-- the kind of toy you'd expect to buy at Radio Shack-- and it
worked great and got me through the show. Had velocity and sustain
pedal and everything. Anything with a MIDI out port will work-- you
can probably find stuff at garage sales if you're really going
low-end.
I'm still pretty new to the whole music game and I'm interested to get
ideas for things I can do. Firstly, what do you use at a gig software
wise and what sort of things are you playing. Secondly, what do you use
2 keyboards for?
If you want USB, the M-Audio keyboards are, in my
experience, utter
crap. However, they seem to be the cheapest things out there. I
bought a used Axiom and it died after a couple months of use.
Garbage.
That's interesting. I was thinking of maybe trying to get one of those
later. They looked really nice. I've currently got an Evolution MK461C,
which I think is also M-Audio, but that works great. I haven't heard of
anything else though- any recommendations?
Thanks
Simon
5:50 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 07:00:06PM +0000, Simon Williams wrote:
If I didn't have to have a portable, battery-operated-capable rig, I'd have bought
a 20-year-old, well-made MIDI keyboard from Roland or Yamaha or some such, and plugged
that into my Linux laptop.
But since I have to have battery-operation, and USB, I bought a Novation. The keyboard is
the most solid-feeling of any of the newer USB keyboards I've played, but that's
damning with faint praise.
-ken
Ken Restivo wrote:
Most of what I end up actually playing in live band situations is fluidsynth (Rhodes and
Steinway soundfonts), nekostring and WhySynth for pads, AMS for Moog, and AZR3 for organ.
Which is why I was thinking about buying a small MOBO and building a portable, more rugged
synth instead of having to carry my very delicate laptop around and figure out how to
protect it from falls, drink spills, etc.
At home and in the few experimental solo livesets I've done, I use pretty much
everything:
http://www.restivo.org/blog/made-with/
One night at a gig, I had brain fart and forgot
to bring my second
MIDI controller. I borrowed a cheap Yamaha all-in-one keyboard at
home-- the kind of toy you'd expect to buy at Radio Shack-- and it
worked great and got me through the show. Had velocity and sustain
pedal and everything. Anything with a MIDI out port will work-- you
can probably find stuff at garage sales if you're really going
low-end.
I'm still pretty new to the whole music game and I'm interested to get
ideas for things I can do. Firstly, what do you use at a gig software wise and what sort of things are you playing. Secondly,
what do you use 2
keyboards for?
I used to use 2 keyboards because the splits on the Axiom were so weird and complicated
and inflexible. Also it was only 49 keys-- not enough for a split really. So now I have a
Novation Remote SL 61 key. Splits suck on this keyboard too, so I wrote my own cheesy
little daemon to do the splits, much more flexibly, in linux.
http://www.restivo.org/blog/archives/midi-splitter
If you want USB, the M-Audio keyboards are, in my
experience, utter
crap. However, they seem to be the cheapest things out there. I
bought a used Axiom and it died after a couple months of use.
Garbage.
That's interesting. I was thinking of maybe trying to get one of those
later. They looked really nice. I've currently got an Evolution MK461C,
which I think is also M-Audio, but that works great. I haven't heard of
anything else though- any recommendations?
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